* Participants who want to take part in the competition must be either Active or Passive Candidates.
a) Competition is open to public.
b) Jury, consisting of the festival guests, teachers and soloists, will monitor the competition and will award the prizes.
c) The decisions of the jury are irrevocable.
d) The candidates will appear in an alphabetical order.
e) All compositions must be played from memory.eg) The candidates cannot play the same composition in both first and second stage.
f) The requested duration comprises all of the candidate’s appearance.
g) In case the duration exceeds the requested maximum, the jury reserves the right to interrupt the performance.
h) Younger candidates can compete in older categories.
i) One candidate can compete in more than one category.
j) In case the two candidates score equal amount of points, the prize goes to the younger candidate.
k) The winners from all the categories will appear on the final Gala concert on October 28th 2023. at 19:00 h in the Hall of the Cultural Centre of Sarajevo East. They will each perform one composition of 5 min. maximum duration.
l) Festival committee will award one special prize “Young Guitar Talent of Sarajevo East 2023” to the best competitor from Sarajevo East.
m) Prizes award will follow at 19:30 h.
n) Jury reserves the right not to award some of the prizes.
o) In I, II and III competition category candidates are ranked according to the number of acquired points in such a manner that there can be more then one 1st, 2nd or 3rd prize (I prize od 95 – 100, II prize od 85 – 94,9 and III prize od 75 – 84,9).
One candidate in each category who had won the absolutely highest number of points is awarded a Category Laureate Prize.
p) In the IV, V and VI category only one 1st, one 2nd and one 3rd prize in each category are awarded according to the number of acquired points.